Jewish Culture

Is the language of Sephardic Jews, undergoing a revival?

In Israel, even the musical is political.

Music in modern-day Israel has a rich history reaching back to the years before the founding of the State.

A unique sound emanating from a unique place

Jewish mystics took Judaism's reverence for the Hebrew language one step further, venerating the Hebrew letters themselves and considering them paths to the Divine.

Once considered the language of an older generation, Yiddish is now being embraced by hip twenty- and thirty-somethings.

Rahel's poetry expounded on the beauty of the land of Israel--but it was a tragedy in space that gave one of her poems renewed attention.

According to Jewish tradition, Hebrew is the original language of humanity and the language spoken by God.

It's difficult to pinpoint the moment Hebrew emerged as a unique language.

A review of the Jewish satirist's long career in fiction.

In the 1970s, literary critics predicted the demise of the Jewish American novel. A talented group of novelists proved them wrong.